The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-28

/ unable TO shake Ormonde, who won amIC
! deafening cheers by neck, Bendigo thre
| lengths behind Minting. Time, IA 2-5.
Professors Seeley, Jebb, Sedgwick, Clarl
and other Liberal Unionist members o
the Senate of Cambridge University hav'
| signed an address to the Marquis of Hart
| ington, expressing their admiration fo
the inestimable public services of himsel
and other eminent Liberal-UniOnists, il
| opposing Gladstone.
Lawrence Donovan has successfully
| jumped from London bridge into the
Thames.
Beach has accepted a challenge to row
Trickett for the worlds championship.
The Immortalile, a new British war yes
sci, was successfully foated at Chatham OF
the 7th of June. She is 5000 tons displace
ment, OF $500 horsepower, and is ex
pected to steam Is knots.
A dispatch from Rome of June 10th
says: In the Chamber of Deputies to-day
Signor Doves questioned the Government
in regard to rumOrs of reconciliation with
the Vatican. Minister Crispi said the Gov.
eminent, at any rate, was not seeking
Cancellation and had no wish to know what
was occurring.
The bridge over the Tay IS completed
the total cost being 100000.
San Ell Paso, Texas, dispatch of June 10th
says; The huge land grant made by the
Mexican Government lately to Henry P.
Clifford. of New York, and ]. A Flerges,
IF Con Fponoicon INV - L IL,
est that was ever made in the Republic.
1t affects a vast parallelogram along the
Sierra, from the middle of Durango to the
United States boundary, 358 miles long by
126 miles wide. One-third of all the lands
and mines not already covered by previous
private title are included in the grant
AT a mass meeting of the carpenters be-
longing to the American Brotherhood of
the Amalgamated Society and Knights of
Labor, held at Toronto, June 10th, it was
decided to strike because the EMPLOYERS
refused to grant an increase of wages. Be
tween 600 and 700 men will strike, and
will paralyze the whole building trade A
prolonged strike is probably inevitable
The death of old Daniel BaIger, at Bronx
vile, n. Y, is attributed to striped hose,
which he bought in Paris
The new emigration law is being strictly
enforced at New York.
Commissioner Sparks has warned an in
tending purchaser that the Burlington and
Missouri River Railway has taken more
land than its grant calls for.
The prohibition law in Maine has been
evaded by the sale of imported liquors in
the original packages.
I. The Los Angeles Board of Trade Com
mittee has made report against the Inter
state Commerce law.
W. r. Miller, late a lumber dealer of
Pe aluma, but more recently residing in
Oakland, died of heart disease in Santa
Cruz, June 10th.
Since the outbreak of smallpox in ia
maica there had been 6,874 cases reported |
prior to May 4th. On April 23d there were, |
n the fourteen districts into which the !
sland is divided, sos cases under treat
nent.
The steamer San Bias arrived at San
francisco June 5th from Panama. From
ng is taken: 1.-The American schooner
lotus, Captain Ross, was fired upon when
ntering the harbor of La Union, Salvador.
few days ago. The sails were perforated
" few bullet shots. The mistake arose
wing to the soldiers on guard believing
he vessel was engaged in some revolution
ry enterprise. The United States man-of-
7ar Alert happened to arrive in the port
n the following day, and Captain Graham
t once made representation of the mat
er to the authorities, when an ample
pology was rendered by thee officers in
and whose laundering might
ave caused loss of life-and as a conse-
uence international dispute. In former
ears it was made principle of inter
atiOnal usage to demand that the flag of
he nation fired on should be hoisted and sa-
tied, but Captain Graham thought that
erbal apology would be sufficient, while at
lie same time it would teach this over
,alous official that nervous anxiety to
re at imaginary eneAfies should not be
ermitted to carry him to the excess of
ring on friendly flag carried by a harm
IS trader"
MATAMoRAs (Mexico), June 4th.-The
of the late action between the
exican cavalry, under Colonel Moves
ernandez, and the Mexican bandits. re-
ntiy driven from BoIsa cutoff by the aid
the civil authorities of Texas, have been
ceived. The bandits numbered twenty
ght, and are believed to have been under
e command of Lazaro Ayala, a we'll
lown bandit from the State of Nueya S
con. Colonel Hernandez lost one man G
lied and three wounded. Fourteen of r
e bandits were captured and immediate S
executed. The remainder are being &
tly pursued, and cavalry from all quart I
) is closing in on them 1t is reported a
at a case of rifles was sent to these men "
the revolutionary party in Brownsville. b
e civil and Mexican authorities are n
rking in unison to break up the banditti 81
ich for over forty years have infested the r.
5-ofs along the border. Il